The microstructure of amorphous rare-earth/transition-metal thin films
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 10 (8), L95-L98
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/10/8/002
Abstract
An anisotropic microstructure has been discovered in vapour-deposited, amorphous rare-earth/transition-metal films. The structure consists of columnar regions of from 50-200 AA in diameter that are surrounded by a network of less dense material. The authors were able to produce a perpendicular component of magnetic anisotropy in amorphous Gd-Co films by evaporation in an oxygen atmosphere of approximately 10-6 Torr.Keywords
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